I personally think that Bear River doesn't have enough creative classes for their students. Students don't have enough room to spread their wings and fly into the world of creation. The lack of creativity-filled classes at this school is astounding, and we need to fix it fast because it represses the creative parts of a person's mind, and it discourages kids from learning what they might be good at.
We can fix this by adding creative classes like more art, painting, art history and more.
Bear River art teacher Elizabeth Jens agrees.
“As an artist I always wanna see more creative classes.”
As an art teacher she probably has the best ideas and best intentions for art students. From Precious Adesina journalist, public speaker and radio presenter “At age 5, a staggering 98 percent of children display a ‘genius level’ of creativity. By age 10, that number drops to just 30 percent, by age 15, it is down to 12 percent, and by adulthood, just 2 percent of us will register at genius level.”
This data shows that as we grow, the school and education system discourage us from being creative.
Our system also puts in our students minds that making mistakes is bad, so it makes students that actually like doing things like art, painting or writing feel that everything has to be perfect.
From Sir.Ken Robinson a British author, speaker, and advisor “We’re now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make”.
The right side of the brain is just as important as the left side, so we should consider caring for it more. When you feed your left brain you should also make sure to also feed your right side.
“I would add more sections of clay, more of painting and drawing, maybe a very specific print making class, and probably an art history class,” Jens said. “Art history classes are always super fun because you study the history of art, and do projects as you're going through the units.”
Studying the history of art would be more than just a normal art class — you would get art and an academic class at the same time. The school's budget might also be a big roadblock in this process, because if the school gets money they will put it toward what they consider to be more important things and then use the rest of the budget to decide on new classes.
“I can make a giant wish list, and that final decision comes down to Mr. Roberts who’s in charge of adding sections so that would have nothing to do with me,” Jens said. Despite the difficulties and limitations we receive due to budgets I still think that is why I personally think that Bear river needs more creative classes,
